From child seats, cool heads and tough arguments about VAT 🤯

I. Traffic and offspring: SUSHI with kids 👪

By the way: even the little ones seem to like SUSHI very much. You'll probably drive faster than ever with a trailer because you're now being cheered on from behind! Jiiiha!


II. Cool heads instead of hot water: The SUSHI Team 🔥



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III. VAT reduction: Increase in value for the SUSHI BIKE? 💸

In the last few days we have received many inquiries about a possible price reduction due to the reduction in VAT. If you've been paying attention, you know today is about growth. So that just excludes thematically, categorically and anyway fundamentally. 🙅‍♀️
Ok, you will hardly be satisfied with this reason. That's why we want to explain our arguments to you in more detail (this way the text gets a little bit bigger):

1. SUSHI BIKES was founded with the idea of ​​giving the maximum product to the customer. An affordable e-bike should make this type of mobility accessible to a new target group and change things for the better. Offering an e-bike for 999 euros is really not easy and can only be realized with a super tight margin. We have accepted this so far and have not increased the price despite the following points. That's why we now want to stick to the gross price of €999, especially since communication about SUSHI BIKES is closely linked to this price.

2. This Corona crisis, which led to this reduction in VAT, presented us with great challenges as a super young company. Not only maintaining the supply chain, but absorbing all the cost increases was and still is super difficult.You can certainly imagine that freight costs are increasing immensely, because many large companies are having to do a lot of logistics. Prices for components are rising and potential price negotiations for economies of scale, which would be super important for our business model, were stopped because demand is outstripping supply in the The bicycle industry is currently massively exceeded.

3. Now you might be thinking: "Well, if the demand is so high, then you don't have to complain". That's right, we're lucky and haven't had a slump in demand due to the crisis. But this enormous rush for bicycles took place mainly in retail, because the desire for immediately available bikes was of course extremely high. We are also noticing positive effects, but for the reasons mentioned above, this doesn't change much in terms of our low margin per bike.

4. We are continuously improving the SUSHI BIKES. Lights were not initially announced as part of the scope of delivery and were not included in the price, but we still added a set of lights to every bike delivered. Shortly before delivery, we switched to a high-quality Shimano bottom bracket, massively optimized the battery holder over time, constantly improved the packaging and adjusted an incredible number of small things that increased the costs for us, but we didn't change the price.

A little insight: The additional costs far exceed the potential VAT savings of around €25.

5. If you read along now, you will get an exemplary guided tour through the curiosity of this measure against the background of the pre-order topic.
Let's start with the following example: In March we received two orders. One of them related to a readily available Maki, which we will be delivering in June. The second order, however, was a California roll, which is to be delivered in July. Now both paid the same amount at the time of ordering, but the buyer of the California Roll will be refunded the difference in the VAT reduction afterwards, while the buyer of the Maki will remain at the same gross price. That would be a nice compensation for the waiting time, but that's certainly not the point.
Anyone who has been following SUSHI BIKES for a longer period of time knows that it has always been and still is important to us that every customer is treated equally and that loyalty should be appreciated. That's why we don't give discounts for any campaigns, for example.

6. The VAT reduction will probably cause more work for us than we would generate additional income. Examples: Many customer inquiries, conversion of the shop system, adjustment of invoices and marketing materials, higher accounting costs and many other points.

We then also restored the thematic reference... peace, joy, SUSHI.
And that's it.